Category Archives: Workshops

Save the Children Craft Workshop

Posted on June 13, 2019 by kellymarietheartist

Recent pompom and tassel making workshops at Save the Children Bath charity. Continue reading →

Posted in Crafternoons, Crochet & Knitting, How-to, Sewing, Textiles, Workshops | Tagged Craft Workshops, Crochet Fashion, Crochet Fruit, Festival Crochet, Festival Wear, Handmade Fashion, Pompoms, Save the Children, tassels, wool crafts | Comments Off

Golden, found and wearable (ear art)

Posted on March 5, 2019 by kellymarietheartist

Took out the pliers and found costume jewellery, made junk art earrings. Continue reading →

Posted in Festival Wear, Re-use, Works in progress, Workshops | Tagged Art and Design, artist perspective, Bijouterie, Chain, crafternoons, DIY, experimentation, Faux gold, Found Art, handmade, Jewellery, Metal, Pom-poms, work in progress | Comments Off

Making a bender

Posted on February 16, 2019 by kellymarietheartist

Using willow poles to build a bender, a traditional tent building technique Continue reading →

Posted in Exhibitions, Foraging, How-to, Travelling, Works in progress, Workshops | Tagged art, Bender, building, DIY, Europe, experimentation, Foraging, handmade, Round Wood, sculpture, Structural, Traditional, Travel, Willow, work in progress | Comments Off

Chainmail!

Posted on December 21, 2018 by kellymarietheartist

Learned how to do a bit of basic chainmail, used the skill to make a bracelet! Continue reading →

Posted in Crafternoons, Experiments, Festival Wear, How-to, Workshops | Tagged Chainmail, Do It Yourself, Gauntlet, Handmade Fashion, Hathphool, Medieval, Slow Fashion | 5 Comments

Helping out at a wild foods cookery school in Cornwall, Penzance

Posted on May 15, 2017 by kellymarietheartist

Assisting at a foraging and cookery school in Cornwall, learning to cook fish, rabbit and seaweed. Continue reading →

Posted in Europe, Foraging, Recipes, Workshops | Tagged Alexanders, Cornwall, Fat Hen, Helpx, Recipes, sea lettuce, sea spaghetti, seaweed, three cornered leek, Travel, wild food, wild food recipes, wild garlic | Comments Off

Assembling a yurt, finishing touches

Posted on January 4, 2017 by kellymarietheartist

Our main building project at Olabe is now complete! Finishing up the yurt and working out the kinks in our yurt assembly process took about a week in total. You can read about the first few days of the project … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaboration, Europe, Travelling, Works in progress, Workshops | Tagged Basque Country, cast iron stoves, construction, DIY, how-to, Mongolian yurt, Olabe, Spain, teamwork, Travelling, woodworking, Works In Progress, yurt building | 5 Comments

Yurt assembly in Basque Country; tips when building for your first yurt

Posted on January 1, 2017 by kellymarietheartist

My partner and I have been busy assembling a yurt in the Basque Country. We picked up a few tips and ideas you might want to consider if you are starting out on your first yurt building project. It has … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaboration, Europe, How-to, Works in progress, Workshops | Tagged Basque Country, building project, building yurts, collaboration, DIY, how-to, learning languages, Mongolian yurt, Olabe, Spain, teamwork, Travelling, woodwork, yurts | 4 Comments

Paste-up, découpage or papier mâché glue

Posted on January 4, 2016 by kellymarietheartist

How to make paper glue out of flour for découpage, papier mâché or street art paste-ups. Continue reading →

Posted in How-to, Paper, Research, Workshops | Tagged artist perspective, découpage, DIY, Do It Yourself, experimentation, glue recipe, paper crafts, papier mâché, paste ups, Recipes, Street Art | Comments Off

Snapped: Why I’m Wearing This contribution for ABC Open

Posted on October 9, 2013 by kellymarietheartist

Snapped: Why I’m Wearing This Vintage Green Dress ABC Open is asking for contributions for the series Snapped: Why I’m Wearing This. It was so difficult to choose any one particular thing; I went with a dress that is now … Continue reading →

Posted in Inspiration, Photography, theGRID, Toowoomba, Workshops | Tagged artist perspective, crafternoons, crochet, photography, professional, promotional, Queensland, theGRID hybrid arts collective, Toowoomba, Vintage, vintage books, wearable arts | Comments Off

Wearable art works in progress, Creative Tanks update.

Posted on August 10, 2013 by kellymarietheartist

Wearable art works, Creative Tanks meetings this week… …and I feel so alive! So, Creative Tanks will be in it’s third year for the 2013 Carnival of Flowers festival in Toowoomba. It will also be my third year in participating … Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Collaboration, Crochet & Knitting, Exhibitions, Queensland, Toowoomba, Works in progress, Workshops | Tagged .made Creative Space, antique skills, Carnival Of Flowers, crafternoons, Creative Tanks, crochet, pinterest, promotional, Queensland, Ursula Glitch, workshop, youtube | 3 Comments